he vastly expanded the Egyptian empire and built many large monuments. He also reigned for more than 60 years, dying in 1213 B.C. Ptolemy I Soter was a general of Alexander the Great and started ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Following Alexander’s death in Babylon in 323 B.C., his canny general Ptolemy—who had been granted control of Egypt—stole the dead conqueror’s body before it reached Macedonia, Alexander ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

Child: Oh dear. Abdul: When Alexander of Macedon expanded his empire he conquered Egypt, and made himself pharaoh! After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years!